While I have no intention to see the film Blindness, I will categorically state here that the National Federation of the Blind’s protest of it is ludicrous. From what I’ve seen and heard about the film, it’s basically Day of the Triffids without the Triffids. It’s not about blind people,Continue Reading
The nominations for the 78th annual Academy Awards came out within the past week. I fared better this year than last year, having seen four nomiated films prior to the nominations (as opposed to one last year!) So here are the nominees:Continue Reading
What do you do if you’re a wealthy octogenarian widow in the 1930s? Well, if you’re Mrs. Henderson, you buy a west-end theatre (because sitting on charity boards, and taking up tedious hobbies just won’t do…) You also hire a fantastic producer, and put on the best show ever. TheContinue Reading
Boy meets girl, girl meets incredibly large ape, boy looses girl. It’s the oldest story in the world – or at least for the past 70 years – and the king of the modern epic – Peter Jackson – does one of the best remakes with his version of KingContinue Reading
I went to go see the latest Harry Potter film, thinking that it was the middle of the week and it had been out for over a month that I should have no problem getting in. To my surprise, the showing I was heading for was sold out. So IContinue Reading
Shaun of the Dead is a romantic comedy with zombies, co-written by Simon Pegg (Big Train, Spaced) and Edgar Wright (Spaced, Asylum.) Shaun, played by Pegg, is a late-twenties slacker with a deadbeat friend – Ed (Nick Frost – Spaced, Sofa of Time) a dead end job, and a relationshipContinue Reading
Took a little poll, realted to the IMDB’s top 100 movies of all time (or at least as of right now…) Amazing to realize there’s some films that I’ve wanted to see that I still haven’t. Well, here are my results. What’s yours? IMDB’s Top 100 Best Movies of AllContinue Reading
Well I’m sitting here just wasting time, tooling about online and watching Office Space on the television when it occurred to me that it’s been over a week since I said that I’d write something here at least once a week. The only thing mildly interesting that has happened inContinue Reading